§ MR. HARVEY LEWISsaid, he would beg to ask the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Whether any and what in- 1548 structions have been given to Her Majesty's Minister in Mexico relative to the non-receipt, monthly, by the Agent of the Mexican Bondholders there since the 1st of January 1866, of the Twenty-five per Cent of the Custom House Duties specially hypothecated to them under the Dunlop and Aldham Conventions, and which are known by Official Returns to have produced more than the sum of Three Hundred Thousand Pounds yearly, required to pay the annual interest of Three per Cent on the Ten Millions Mexican Bonds?
LORD STANLEYSo late, Sir, as the 10th of January in the present year instructions were sent out to the British representative to support the claims of the bondholders.